Finished it and I'll be honest, my drive in this game was buying property. The story wasn't too great and I have the feeling that I should have played through as a bad guy for fun times. Also,
Did anyone else get red eyes after completing Reaver's quest? Keeping in mind that my character was a pure good hearted dude. Is this a glitch or what?
I enjoyed it enough for a second playthrough, I will leave it at that.
I did, it bugged the hell out of me since I was a Good/Pure character and the red eyes didn't make any sense.
I got the same. I thought it might be a will thing? Or a side effect of the whole
Okay, I know this is a very general question, but is this a game worth picking up?
What does everyone like about it, what're the drawbacks?
Not really, no. You can beat it on one rental.
Its fun and all, but the gameplay itself doesn't really lend itself to replayability.
Listen to this man if you like listening to people who are wrong.
Yeah, I found this game to have a lot of replayability. It has been dominating my game time for the past 2 weeks. I'm on my second play through and plan on doing at least one more.
Okay, I know this is a very general question, but is this a game worth picking up?
What does everyone like about it, what're the drawbacks?
Not really, no. You can beat it on one rental.
Its fun and all, but the gameplay itself doesn't really lend itself to replayability.
Listen to this man if you like listening to people who are wrong.
Yeah. You can beat it in a rental if you play the game a ridiculous amount and hurry through it and don't have any fun or explore. Disruptor just likes to be the negative guy, it's his thing.
Well aware of that.
Yeah I've been playing it for a week now (on and off with Dead Space), and the game takes as long as you want it to. If you choose to straight-line through the story, you can beat it in a rental. Pretty sure most RPGs worth playing are the same way. Good luck finding something that will give you a genuine 30-40 hours (that's the minimum, right?) of actual entertaining main story. Fable II is about giving you a world to explore and poke about in, going off on adventures with your dog and then coming back to lord it up around town when you feel like it.
My only complaints are that the main story really is short and a couple of bugs. I didn't run into any game-breakers though, like some did.
And while the story is short, it's not like the game itself is. I spent plenty of time doing sidequests, hunting for gargoyles and keys, and becoming a real estate baron.
Fable 2 is as well judged as Fable 1 was misjudged.
Ok, when you get the cut off points, how do you know which quests are going to become inaccesible?
I don't believe there is any real way to tell. As far as I have seen the slave rescues, archeologist quests, and assassinations stay there. The rest I believe you want to finish before heading to the spire.
I was playing the crap out of this, right up until I finished it. At which point my enthusiasm to go and grab all the little things I'd missed fell off pretty suddenly. I think it's mainly due to
Me going the selfless hero route and saving all the innocent people at the cost of my dog. I know I was going the ultra good hero but I kinda regret that, it just doesn't feel right going on adventures without him. Being a hero is harsh.
I was playing the crap out of this, right up until I finished it. At which point my enthusiasm to go and grab all the little things I'd missed fell off pretty suddenly. I think it's mainly due to
Me going the selfless hero route and saving all the innocent people at the cost of my dog. I know I was going the ultra good hero but I kinda regret that, it just doesn't feel right going on adventures without him. Being a hero is harsh.
Finished it and I'll be honest, my drive in this game was buying property. The story wasn't too great and I have the feeling that I should have played through as a bad guy for fun times. Also,
Did anyone else get red eyes after completing Reaver's quest? Keeping in mind that my character was a pure good hearted dude. Is this a glitch or what?
I enjoyed it enough for a second playthrough, I will leave it at that.
I did, it bugged the hell out of me since I was a Good/Pure character and the red eyes didn't make any sense.
I got the same. I thought it might be a will thing? Or a side effect of the whole
soul suck
thing
It is intentional.
I let the chick take the fall and her eyes glowed red. I was a good character, but I needed to be healthy and strong enough to stop Lucien!
I was playing the crap out of this, right up until I finished it. At which point my enthusiasm to go and grab all the little things I'd missed fell off pretty suddenly. I think it's mainly due to
Me going the selfless hero route and saving all the innocent people at the cost of my dog. I know I was going the ultra good hero but I kinda regret that, it just doesn't feel right going on adventures without him. Being a hero is harsh.
I saved my dog. I know, selfish.
End Game:
Yeah my first char I didn't save my dog. From here on out though every hero will have the dog at the end of the game. The money isn't worth it by that point, and screw the people, I already have enough statues. I have to say that is one thing I honestly dislike about the game.
For the evil ending they should make you absolute ruler of Albion and be able to kill, maim and plunder whatever you want. That would have been a better ending.
I was playing the crap out of this, right up until I finished it. At which point my enthusiasm to go and grab all the little things I'd missed fell off pretty suddenly. I think it's mainly due to
Me going the selfless hero route and saving all the innocent people at the cost of my dog. I know I was going the ultra good hero but I kinda regret that, it just doesn't feel right going on adventures without him. Being a hero is harsh.
I saved my dog. I know, selfish.
End Game:
Yeah my first char I didn't save my dog. From here on out though every hero will have the dog at the end of the game. The money isn't worth it by that point, and screw the people, I already have enough statues. I have to say that is one thing I honestly dislike about the game.
For the evil ending they should make you absolute ruler of Albion and be able to kill, maim and plunder whatever you want. That would have been a better ending.
I don't know, I LIKED that being a true hero cost you something. As for the evil ending though absolutely, money was retarded and unnecessary.
Better solution would have been access to a variant of Castle Fairfax filled with free hookers and booze for all eternity.
I was playing the crap out of this, right up until I finished it. At which point my enthusiasm to go and grab all the little things I'd missed fell off pretty suddenly. I think it's mainly due to
Me going the selfless hero route and saving all the innocent people at the cost of my dog. I know I was going the ultra good hero but I kinda regret that, it just doesn't feel right going on adventures without him. Being a hero is harsh.
I felt EXACTLY the same after being super good all through the game, weird that!
Edit: Not the same for picking up all little extras, I'm still sucked into getting everything...
Finished it and I'll be honest, my drive in this game was buying property. The story wasn't too great and I have the feeling that I should have played through as a bad guy for fun times. Also,
Did anyone else get red eyes after completing Reaver's quest? Keeping in mind that my character was a pure good hearted dude. Is this a glitch or what?
I enjoyed it enough for a second playthrough, I will leave it at that.
I did, it bugged the hell out of me since I was a Good/Pure character and the red eyes didn't make any sense.
I got the same. I thought it might be a will thing? Or a side effect of the whole
soul suck
thing
It is intentional.
I let the chick take the fall and her eyes glowed red. I was a good character, but I needed to be healthy and strong enough to stop Lucien!
Yeah I figured that. They really make you work to be good in this game, that's a great side effect to have. Really makes the decision harder.
Finished it and I'll be honest, my drive in this game was buying property. The story wasn't too great and I have the feeling that I should have played through as a bad guy for fun times. Also,
Did anyone else get red eyes after completing Reaver's quest? Keeping in mind that my character was a pure good hearted dude. Is this a glitch or what?
I enjoyed it enough for a second playthrough, I will leave it at that.
I did, it bugged the hell out of me since I was a Good/Pure character and the red eyes didn't make any sense.
I got the same. I thought it might be a will thing? Or a side effect of the whole
soul suck
thing
It is intentional.
I let the chick take the fall and her eyes glowed red. I was a good character, but I needed to be healthy and strong enough to stop Lucien!
Yeah I figured that. They really make you work to be good in this game, that's a great side effect to have. Really makes the decision harder.
Maybe it was bugged for me, but I just rested and the eyes went away, and the scarring. The hair stayed. Getting the scars though really made me want to kill Reaver.
Also, Barnum.
My guy is Pure/Good, btw.
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This. It's funny when people say "This game broke my 360!"
Even if you believed this you could restore the factory settings and prove it to yourself.
Look, I don't know what the problem is. I'm not saying that Fable 2 broke my 360, because for now, it seems to be working fine.
All I know is that my 360 is only 10 months old, and I've never had a single problem with it, never had a game so much as freeze up before. Fable 2 was the first one. And when it freezes, it does so repeatedly after powering down the 360 and reloading. It never plays for more than 5 or 10 minutes before freezing.
After that started happening, my other games started freezing, in the exact same manner that Fable was (same vertical lines across the screen and everything). When I let the box sit for a day and a half, my other games seem to be working OK for now, so I'm not putting Fable 2 back into that tray until I read about some kind of patch that fixes the freezing issues people are having (I'm not the only one... people on the Lionhead boards are posting the same type of errors, plus all the bugs you other people are having).
I don't know what's happening, but it just seems coincidental that this started 2 days after I began playing Fable 2, a game with numerous bugs that seem to be manifesting in a lot of different ways.
I'm just trying to describe my own experience because it's something I would want to know about a game before spending $60 on it, then possibly not being able to play it.
e: Incidentally, I did actually wipe my cache because I read that other people had somewhat solved their freezing issues by doing so. After cleaning my cache, I didn't even try playing Fable 2 again, but my other games were still freezing.
I have a weird bug, every time I enter Oakvale, the game registers that I received another "Rising Sun" weapon, and puts another one into my inventory.
Last night I sold 15 legendary Rising Sun's to the Weapons merchant in fairfax.
As for the legendaries.
The Daichi is nice, but man I wish one of the augments was the life draining one, because really I end up using my Master Katana with dual augments in it since basically I have unlimited life while wielding it.
If I put a life draining augment into a ranged weapon, will it proc the life drain ability if I hit something with my sword? Or will it only work if I hit it with my ranged?
Furthermore, I wish they would allow you to replace augments, kind of lame that they are completely permanent.
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Vargas PrimeKing of NothingJust a ShowRegistered Userregular
If I put a life draining augment into a ranged weapon, will it proc the life drain ability if I hit something with my sword? Or will it only work if I hit it with my ranged?
It only works with the weapon you have the augment on, I believe.
I put the augment that gives you gold for each enemy you kill on my sword, and I got no cash when I killed things with my gun.
If I put a life draining augment into a ranged weapon, will it proc the life drain ability if I hit something with my sword? Or will it only work if I hit it with my ranged?
It only works with the weapon you have the augment on, I believe.
I put the augment that gives you gold for each enemy you kill on my sword, and I got no cash when I killed things with my gun.
Damn. Didn't think it would work, but with all the other bugs in this game I thought maybe it was an oversight.
Jeez. I can't believe I missed the discussion about molesting your dog. I mean, I had to register on Live as K9Violator because DogRaper was taken.
On the upside, I did finally figure out how to give people gifts. If you receive some rotten vegetables, it is because I don't like your gamerpic. It's cool that I can still give gifts, even though I'm silver.
How much damage do the different augmentations add to your weapon? Would a Master Katana or Longsword outdamage the
Daichi
if they were equippped with the Lucky and Ghoul augmentations?
I have lucky and ghoul in mine, and no I don't think it compares with the daichi damage-wise.
But having unlimited life is pretty fucking rad, so it's hard to justify using the daichi.
Sad too, since the weapon is so goddamn beautiful.
See, the thing about unlimited life is, it'd be a lot more impressive if anything in Fable 2 made me feel genuinely threatened.
As there's nothing that dangerous, I'd go with the Daichi. Or, more importantly, the Red Dragon and just kill it all before it gets within a mile of you.
Jeez. I can't believe I missed the discussion about molesting your dog. I mean, I had to register on Live as K9Violator because DogRaper was taken.
On the upside, I did finally figure out how to give people gifts. If you receive some rotten vegetables, it is because I don't like your gamerpic. It's cool that I can still give gifts, even though I'm silver.
This is a beautiful post.
I'm going to throw this back on tonight, and if the game is still all bugged and broken, I'll have to try a restart.
First run-through I was good. So this second attempt EVERYONE WILL DIIIEEEE!
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FeriluceAdrift on the morning star.Aberdeen, WARegistered Userregular
edited November 2008
I use the daichi, and I don't have to worry about life. Sleeping in the Brightwood Tower (which you must own if you have the daichi) ups your max health plus gives you regen.
I use the daichi, and I don't have to worry about life. Sleeping in the Brightwood Tower (which you must own if you have the daichi) ups your max health plus gives you regen.
Wait what?
Is this a permanent thing or what?
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FeriluceAdrift on the morning star.Aberdeen, WARegistered Userregular
I use the daichi, and I don't have to worry about life. Sleeping in the Brightwood Tower (which you must own if you have the daichi) ups your max health plus gives you regen.
Wait what?
Is this a permanent thing or what?
Almost every house you have gives you a bonus when you sleep there. It will last until you sleep again.
I use the daichi, and I don't have to worry about life. Sleeping in the Brightwood Tower (which you must own if you have the daichi) ups your max health plus gives you regen.
Wait what?
Is this a permanent thing or what?
Almost every house you have gives you a bonus when you sleep there. It will last until you sleep again.
The bed you get from the pub games gives you nice bonuses as well.
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Ninja Snarl PMy helmet is my burden.Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered Userregular
edited November 2008
I don't get why someone would bother getting all that health upgrade/life drain stuff. You never actually die, the only "challenging" enemies are just stupid fights (Wow, shooting grub things off a troll. That's... exciting.), and the money-for-kills augmentation on a master weapon is vastly more functional. Getting regenerating health just because you feel like it is something I can understand. Getting regenerating health because it makes the game even easier seems like a waste of time.
Having beaten the game, I'd have to say that Fable II is still pretty overrated. A vast improvement over Fable I in pretty much every way, sure, but still overrated. The dog? A useless distraction. Common sense would say that it should change a bit more than fur color, but apparently that's all we get. I think the one-button combat is nice, but combat is so easy that it's almost pointless. Social interaction and property ownership are great, but again, they don't actually do anything. Any gifts or bonuses they would give you can pretty much be purchased somewhere else without having to bother with a few gestures or buying a house. And then, of course, there's the fact that the co-op setup is terrible and the game itself is a buggy mess.
As a game to just goof around in, it's fairly decent. As a game that makes me feel like I accomplished something, it was almost a total waste of time. So glad I'm getting my money back for this game.
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FeriluceAdrift on the morning star.Aberdeen, WARegistered Userregular
I don't get why someone would bother getting all that health upgrade/life drain stuff. You never actually die, the only "challenging" enemies are just stupid fights (Wow, shooting grub things off a troll. That's... exciting.), and the money-for-kills augmentation on a master weapon is vastly more functional. Getting regenerating health just because you feel like it is something I can understand. Getting regenerating health because it makes the game even easier seems like a waste of time.
Having beaten the game, I'd have to say that Fable II is still pretty overrated. A vast improvement over Fable I in pretty much every way, sure, but still overrated. The dog? A useless distraction. Common sense would say that it should change a bit more than fur color, but apparently that's all we get. I think the one-button combat is nice, but combat is so easy that it's almost pointless. Social interaction and property ownership are great, but again, they don't actually do anything. Any gifts or bonuses they would give you can pretty much be purchased somewhere else without having to bother with a few gestures or buying a house. And then, of course, there's the fact that the co-op setup is terrible and the game itself is a buggy mess.
As a game to just goof around in, it's fairly decent. As a game that makes me feel like I accomplished something, it was almost a total waste of time. So glad I'm getting my money back for this game.
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I got the same. I thought it might be a will thing? Or a side effect of the whole
Listen to this man if you like listening to people who are wrong.
Yeah, I found this game to have a lot of replayability. It has been dominating my game time for the past 2 weeks. I'm on my second play through and plan on doing at least one more.
Yeah. You can beat it in a rental if you play the game a ridiculous amount and hurry through it and don't have any fun or explore. Disruptor just likes to be the negative guy, it's his thing.
Yeah I've been playing it for a week now (on and off with Dead Space), and the game takes as long as you want it to. If you choose to straight-line through the story, you can beat it in a rental. Pretty sure most RPGs worth playing are the same way. Good luck finding something that will give you a genuine 30-40 hours (that's the minimum, right?) of actual entertaining main story. Fable II is about giving you a world to explore and poke about in, going off on adventures with your dog and then coming back to lord it up around town when you feel like it.
Congratulations on managing to completely ignore the vast swathes of evidence that this is not the same as the first one.
My only complaints are that the main story really is short and a couple of bugs. I didn't run into any game-breakers though, like some did.
And while the story is short, it's not like the game itself is. I spent plenty of time doing sidequests, hunting for gargoyles and keys, and becoming a real estate baron.
Ok, when you get the cut off points, how do you know which quests are going to become inaccesible?
I don't believe there is any real way to tell. As far as I have seen the slave rescues, archeologist quests, and assassinations stay there. The rest I believe you want to finish before heading to the spire.
It is intentional.
End Game:
For the evil ending they should make you absolute ruler of Albion and be able to kill, maim and plunder whatever you want. That would have been a better ending.
Better solution would have been access to a variant of Castle Fairfax filled with free hookers and booze for all eternity.
White FC: 0819 3350 1787
I think Theresa says stuff.
If you're headed to the spire: Invest with Barnum (or not). And do the quest for your temple of choice.
I felt EXACTLY the same after being super good all through the game, weird that!
Edit: Not the same for picking up all little extras, I'm still sucked into getting everything...
Yeah I figured that. They really make you work to be good in this game, that's a great side effect to have. Really makes the decision harder.
My guy is Pure/Good, btw.
Look, I don't know what the problem is. I'm not saying that Fable 2 broke my 360, because for now, it seems to be working fine.
All I know is that my 360 is only 10 months old, and I've never had a single problem with it, never had a game so much as freeze up before. Fable 2 was the first one. And when it freezes, it does so repeatedly after powering down the 360 and reloading. It never plays for more than 5 or 10 minutes before freezing.
After that started happening, my other games started freezing, in the exact same manner that Fable was (same vertical lines across the screen and everything). When I let the box sit for a day and a half, my other games seem to be working OK for now, so I'm not putting Fable 2 back into that tray until I read about some kind of patch that fixes the freezing issues people are having (I'm not the only one... people on the Lionhead boards are posting the same type of errors, plus all the bugs you other people are having).
I don't know what's happening, but it just seems coincidental that this started 2 days after I began playing Fable 2, a game with numerous bugs that seem to be manifesting in a lot of different ways.
I'm just trying to describe my own experience because it's something I would want to know about a game before spending $60 on it, then possibly not being able to play it.
e: Incidentally, I did actually wipe my cache because I read that other people had somewhat solved their freezing issues by doing so. After cleaning my cache, I didn't even try playing Fable 2 again, but my other games were still freezing.
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Last night I sold 15 legendary Rising Sun's to the Weapons merchant in fairfax.
As for the legendaries.
If I put a life draining augment into a ranged weapon, will it proc the life drain ability if I hit something with my sword? Or will it only work if I hit it with my ranged?
Furthermore, I wish they would allow you to replace augments, kind of lame that they are completely permanent.
It only works with the weapon you have the augment on, I believe.
I put the augment that gives you gold for each enemy you kill on my sword, and I got no cash when I killed things with my gun.
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Damn. Didn't think it would work, but with all the other bugs in this game I thought maybe it was an oversight.
Oh well.
I have lucky and ghoul in mine, and no I don't think it compares with the daichi damage-wise.
But having unlimited life is pretty fucking rad, so it's hard to justify using the daichi.
Sad too, since the weapon is so goddamn beautiful.
On the upside, I did finally figure out how to give people gifts. If you receive some rotten vegetables, it is because I don't like your gamerpic. It's cool that I can still give gifts, even though I'm silver.
See, the thing about unlimited life is, it'd be a lot more impressive if anything in Fable 2 made me feel genuinely threatened.
As there's nothing that dangerous, I'd go with the Daichi. Or, more importantly, the Red Dragon and just kill it all before it gets within a mile of you.
White FC: 0819 3350 1787
This is a beautiful post.
I'm going to throw this back on tonight, and if the game is still all bugged and broken, I'll have to try a restart.
First run-through I was good. So this second attempt EVERYONE WILL DIIIEEEE!
Steam: Feriluce
Battle.net: Feriluce#1995
Wait what?
Is this a permanent thing or what?
Almost every house you have gives you a bonus when you sleep there. It will last until you sleep again.
Steam: Feriluce
Battle.net: Feriluce#1995
Nice. I'm all over that.
Steam: Feriluce
Battle.net: Feriluce#1995
Having beaten the game, I'd have to say that Fable II is still pretty overrated. A vast improvement over Fable I in pretty much every way, sure, but still overrated. The dog? A useless distraction. Common sense would say that it should change a bit more than fur color, but apparently that's all we get. I think the one-button combat is nice, but combat is so easy that it's almost pointless. Social interaction and property ownership are great, but again, they don't actually do anything. Any gifts or bonuses they would give you can pretty much be purchased somewhere else without having to bother with a few gestures or buying a house. And then, of course, there's the fact that the co-op setup is terrible and the game itself is a buggy mess.
As a game to just goof around in, it's fairly decent. As a game that makes me feel like I accomplished something, it was almost a total waste of time. So glad I'm getting my money back for this game.
Steam: Feriluce
Battle.net: Feriluce#1995
So basically Fable plays as advertised
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